This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Andrew Peach and in the early hours of Thursday the 19th of September, these are our main stories.

Israel's Defence Minister says the focus of its year-long war is moving north

with an army division that was recently in Gaza moving to the border with Lebanon.

The comments came after another day of explosions across Lebanon this this time involving walkie talkies used by

Hezbollah. The US Federal Reserve has cut its lending rate by half a percentage point, its

first reduction in four years.

Also in this podcast, Stinall Strong, grasp here and didn't want to let go.

And I tried to get off of it once myself. Well I couldn't.

Why the US state of Oregon is recriminalizing drugs like fentanyl just four years after they were

decriminalized. Now just 24 hours ago we were reporting that 12 people had been killed and 3,000 had

been injured after handheld pages used by Hezbollah fighters exploded in Lebanon on Tuesday.

Then on Wednesday as some of the dead were buried there were more explosions.

This time it was walkie-talkie, sported by Hezbollah a few months ago at the same time as the pages.

Twenty more people died, 450 were injured.

Now Israel's defense minister has said the focus of its year-long war is moving north with an army division

that was recently in Gaza, moving to the border with Lebanon.

Here's a recording of one of the blasts on Wednesday posted by LBCI news in Lebanon.

The FISA Konevard of BBC Persian was in Beirut for the funerals of those who died on Tuesday.

Here's what she told me.

While we were there we heard quite a strong explosion and we found out that the explosion happened not far from us

inside one of the ambulances that was parked near the funeral area.

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